Three women died and three other relatives fell ill after eating the cake during a family get-together on December 23, officials said.

Deise Moura dos Anjos released a statement via her lawyers stating there was a "causal link between the poison and Deise" but questioning how arsenic ended up at her home in Brazil

An arrest has been made in the case of a family in Brazil who were poisoned on Christmas Eve after eating a cake containing arsenic.

A woman in Brazil fed her family an arsenic-laced Christmas cake, killing three female relatives and hospitalizing three others, cops say.

Three women died and three other relatives fell ill after eating the cake during a family get-together on December 23, officials said.

In Porto Alegre, Brazil, a woman suspected of murdering three relatives and attempting to kill three more people has been arrested. Deise Moura allegedly added arsenic to a Christmas cake. She was detained at her home in Rio Grande do Sul.